Markus Wanner wrote: > On 11/30/2012 01:40 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > > I totally missed the need to connect to shared memory to be able to > > connect to a database and query it. Can't we just link the bgworkder > > code to the client libpq library, just as plproxy is doing I believe? > > Well, sure you can use libpq. But so can external processes. So that's > no benefit of running under the postmaster.
No, it's not a benefit of that; but such a process would get started up when postmaster is started, and shut down when postmaster stops. So it makes easier to have processes that need to run alongside postmaster. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
